Huge £250 masterplan 'blown apart' as Morrisons pulls out

The Yorkshire-based supermarket chain was supposed to move to a new location on the cleared 30,000 square foot site of the former Thwaites Brewery off Barbara Castle Way. It was a key component Blackburn with Darwen Council’s Blackburn Town Centre Masterplan unveiled in December 2021.

Approached by the Local Democracy Reporting Service a spokeswoman for Morrisons said: “Due to rising construction costs the new store plans are no longer viable so we will be remaining in our current store in Blackburn.” In the meantime, the cleared space would have become a temporary green, public space. The masterplan hopes to deliver a £60m Skills and Education campus with a Cyber Zone; low carbon town centre accommodation next to retail, local services and flexible workspaces and improved public realm and increased cycle/pedestrian routes.

“We are proud to be an incredibly ambitious council working on important schemes for both of our town centres, but this is against a difficult national backdrop. “Our plans to re-develop the former St John’s Church and Making Rooms – as part of Blackburn’s neighbouring Tech Innovation Quarter – are also well on track. We are committed to doing the very best for our towns, residents and businesses as part of our £1bn vision for the future and won’t be deterred.”

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